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Pagina 47
... direct your columns as rapidly as possible on the real point pre- viously selected , and throw your bridge across . Alexander's passage of the Hydaspes is a striking illustration of these remarks ; and there is a resemblance between ...
... direct your columns as rapidly as possible on the real point pre- viously selected , and throw your bridge across . Alexander's passage of the Hydaspes is a striking illustration of these remarks ; and there is a resemblance between ...
Pagina 77
... direct it . The whole might of Rome should have been put forth to crush Hannibal himself , -against the man individually ; and this the Romans recognised afterwards when they pursued him with such unrelenting hatred to his death . The ...
... direct it . The whole might of Rome should have been put forth to crush Hannibal himself , -against the man individually ; and this the Romans recognised afterwards when they pursued him with such unrelenting hatred to his death . The ...
Pagina 78
... direct on Clusium , from which place one road led south- ward to Rome , another eastward , passing south of Lake Thrasymene and by Perusia into Umbria , it was necessary to occupy this important strategical point . Leaving therefore ...
... direct on Clusium , from which place one road led south- ward to Rome , another eastward , passing south of Lake Thrasymene and by Perusia into Umbria , it was necessary to occupy this important strategical point . Leaving therefore ...
Pagina 93
... direct echellon from the centre - the two centre double battalions and those on their flanks respectively ad- vancing in direct echellon , the right wing from the left , the left wing from the right . This manœuvre was only executed by ...
... direct echellon from the centre - the two centre double battalions and those on their flanks respectively ad- vancing in direct echellon , the right wing from the left , the left wing from the right . This manœuvre was only executed by ...
Pagina 126
... direct the Gaulish insurgents , and to endeavour to induce the Etruscans and Umbrians to join the Southern confederacy against Rome , which was directed by Hannibal . 6. Hannibal's intelligence appears to have been defec- tive . On two ...
... direct the Gaulish insurgents , and to endeavour to induce the Etruscans and Umbrians to join the Southern confederacy against Rome , which was directed by Hannibal . 6. Hannibal's intelligence appears to have been defec- tive . On two ...
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